Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 98: Bai Fei Bai
Subtitle of this chapter: If an author of a historical novel does not have his own agenda, what’s the difference between him and salted fish?
"Hey, it's already more than ten minutes late, why hasn't Professor Chandler arrived yet?"
"Yes, he is always the most punctual. I have never seen him be late or leave early in his class. I once saw him timing with a stopwatch. He is indeed a German."
"Hey, just because he's German, he can't come today!"
"Why?"
"Haven't you heard? His son's case, accused of being a German spy, went to trial today. He went back to Pennsylvania to appear in court."
"Professor Chandler's son is a German spy?! Is this true?! I heard that his son used to be an American officer."
"Who knows? His son is indeed a professional officer who graduated from West Point. Mr. Chandler was almost blinded by German poison gas bombs on the French front and was left with serious sequelae, so he retired honorably after being promoted to major."
"After returning to the United States two years ago, he became a reporter for the Harrisburg Free Press. But I don't know if the poison gas has made his mind abnormal. Not only did he publicly oppose the Treaty of Versailles, he also frequently published articles saying that the United States and Germany should join forces, that the United States should fully support Irish independence, that the French are pig teammates and can never be trusted, and that the cunning British should go back home.. "
"That's why he was targeted by patriotic groups and arrested as a German spy."
Overnight, after President Wilson declared war on the Allied Powers on April 6, 1917, countless "super patriots" emerged in our great America. These naval enthusiasts, conscription believers, prohibition supporters, tobacco opponents, evolutionists, Puritans who abstinence, supporters of speech censorship, anti-black, anti-Jewish, and anti-Chinese racists... all wrapped themselves in patriotic cloaks made of the Stars and Stripes, and described their enemies as running dogs of Lenin and William II.
These patriots organized hundreds of "patriotic groups" of all sizes, and the KKK, which Professor Adams joined, was one of them. The ideologies and beliefs of these guys are of course varied and innumerable, but their attitude towards traitors and radicals is quite consistent, that is, SOS.
In order to combat the anti-war forces at home, the Wilson administration pushed Congress to pass the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act in 1917 and 1918, respectively, to suppress anti-British, pro-German and anti-war voices. This veteran, who could be considered a war hero, ran into this very problem when he returned home.
Our Master Yuan was so sad after hearing this gossip. The corporal with the mustache was almost blinded by the poison gas bomb, but later he became the head of state. However, Major Little Chandler did not leave any trace in history. It can only be said that the same person has a different fate.
However, in his opinion, the chances of Major Chandler being imprisoned were low, because the political atmosphere in the United States in November 1920 and November 1918 was completely different...
At this moment, Professor Klein, who had just been distributing flyers at the door, walked in hurriedly with a stack of undistributed flyers in his hand. Behind him followed several college students who were studying for a bachelor's degree in economics.
"Gentlemen , Professor Chandler has asked for leave today, so I'm here to fill in for him."
The Jewish professor with very Jewish features walked up to the podium and spoke in a slightly sharp voice.
The so-called Jewish characteristics are actually the characteristics of the West Asian Semitic people, including black curly hair, long face, hooked nose, deep eye sockets and relatively short stature compared to Western European peoples.
From a genetic perspective, they and their future mortal enemy really belong to the same Semitic race. The funny thing is that people all over the world praise the Jews in the Semitic race as the smartest people, while describing another part of this race as fucking sheep herders who are only fit to eat sand.
However, because Jews have been wandering around Europe for two thousand years, as a result of a large amount of intermarriage, some Jews have gradually become similar to local ethnic groups, and their racial characteristics are no longer so obvious. In order to confirm the identity of white people suspected of being Jews, the mustache gang had to check the foreskin of the person. It must be said that before the emergence of antibiotics, a minor operation like circumcision was also extremely risky. If medieval Europeans also practiced circumcision based on their hygiene habits... the scene must have been beautiful!
However, discrimination against Jews in Eastern Europe is more serious than in Western Europe, so intermarriage is relatively rare, which also makes the Jews there look more "natural", which is the appearance of Professor Klein.
He said loudly: "Since this is political economy, the content of today's class is this election. I admit that I support the Democratic Party..."
Just like a hundred years later, most of the ethnic minorities in the United States in 1920 also supported the Democratic Party. However, unlike a hundred years later, the "ethnic minorities" here did not refer to blacks or yellows, but actually whites, or more precisely, Caucasians.
What? Some people say that the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870 gave black people the right to vote... Come on, do those niggers understand what voting is? The sun either came out of the west.
In order to prevent them from tarnishing the democratic elections of civilized people, American states, especially southern states, set extremely stringent prerequisites for voter registration, which in disguise deprived African Americans of their right to vote.
Black people are treated this way, not to mention the native Indians and immigrants from various Asian ethnic groups. In fact, in those days, due to the existence of the Chinese Exclusion Act, it was almost impossible for yellow people to become naturalized Americans.
Of course, white people are different from each other. For the American melting pot to truly take shape, it will take a large-scale war in which all people participate, or at least feel a sense of participation.
Yes, World War II! World War I was actually interrupted by the Spanish Flu in 1918, so for the United States, which entered the war in 1917, this war was too short and not exciting enough... well, intense.
Only the forging of black iron and the watering of red blood can turn the "imagined community" into a real community.
In 1920, minorities in the United States referred to all non-WASP and non-German-Dutch whites, such as the Celts in Ireland, the Latins in France (southern) and Italy, the Slavs in Eastern Europe, and of course the Jews. The Republicans looked down on them, so the Democrats clung to them for warmth.
Ethnicity is also related to religion. Irish, French and Italian immigrants are basically Catholics, and Slavs are naturally Orthodox Christians, which are not compatible with the Protestant WASP Episcopal Church. This makes the Democratic Party more open and tolerant of religion. Of course, no matter how open and tolerant this era is, atheism will not be tolerated.
This naturally changed the factional composition of the Democratic Party. Later, the Democratic Party produced the first and so far only Irish Catholic , the fourth assassinated president, and the Nth president who could not control his pants, JFK.
